But still there are a lot of problems: slow roads, traffic, quality of services outside Moscow. There is still a gap between expensive gated communities which have their own *everything* including water supply, medical services and schools, and the common level.
For example, my dacha is not far from an ancient town of Mozhaisk. Mozhaisk is exactly 2 hours by train from Moscow. It's very cheap currently to live there but I cannot imagine my son, who will go to school next year going to a local shool with local rednecks. Maybe it's prejudice but...
Also, in Moscow (or other town with highrise buildings) we have a luxury of hot water without limits and centralized heating. In the US or England it was a problem for me not having that.
And of course it's hard to drive so many hours a day or sit in a crowded train.
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Date: 2013-08-07 04:02 pm (UTC)But still there are a lot of problems: slow roads, traffic, quality of services outside Moscow.
There is still a gap between expensive gated communities which have their own *everything* including water supply, medical services and schools, and the common level.
For example, my dacha is not far from an ancient town of Mozhaisk.
Mozhaisk is exactly 2 hours by train from Moscow.
It's very cheap currently to live there but I cannot imagine my son, who will go to school next year going to a local shool with local rednecks.
Maybe it's prejudice but...
Also, in Moscow (or other town with highrise buildings) we have a luxury of hot water without limits and centralized heating.
In the US or England it was a problem for me not having that.
And of course it's hard to drive so many hours a day or sit in a crowded train.